Also sprach Chris Wilson:
> And that is our plan, except I think perhaps our definitions of
> "too extreme" differ. We can't, for example, change the behavior of
> how we support CSS floats in IE7 without requiring an opt-in, since
> we would change layout significantly for half the web.*
Standards are like vaccination -- it hurts a bit, but it's better in
the end.
I played with an old PC some time ago, it was running IE 5.0.
Installing the HP printer driver required that I had a newer IE
version installed (!), so I had to surf around at www.microsoft.com
with IE 5.0. That was an eye-opening experience with plenty of
overlapping content, huge white areas, and ultra-narrow content.
Compared to these radical layout changes users have been exposed to in
the past, fixing the CSS floating is gentle.
> *49% of the top 200 US sites were in "strict mode" as of a couple
> weeks ago.
If that's what they want, the browsers should deliver.
-h&kon
HÃ¥kon Wium Lie CTO Â°Ã¾eÂ®Âª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome